SME Times News Bureau | 23 Jan, 2022
National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has thanked Chief
Minister Basavaraj Bommai for lifting the weekend curfew in Karnataka
and hearing the concerns of the restaurant industry.
Mukesh
Tolani, Head of NRAI Bengaluru Chapter said: "On behalf of the Industry,
I profusely thank Chief Minister of Karnataka Basavaraj Bommai for
lifting the weekend curfew in Bengaluru. A huge thank you for hearing
out our concerns so patiently, understanding them and reassuring us that
they will be resolved soon. The announcement of the lifting of weekend
curfew is the ray of hope for us and the industry can certainly be
hopeful of a balanced approach with regards to curfews in future."
He
further added that during a meeting with the CM, they had conveyed that
they were fighting a grim battle for existence and only an urgent
policy and fiscal support from the Government could help them survive
the pandemic.
"I was so delighted to see that the Chief Minister
is pro-business and advised us to make more detailed and specific
representations and promised to take up the concerns of the industry on
priority. The meeting gave the industry much optimism after a gloomy 2
years as Basavaraj Bommai also expressed empathy towards the situation
faced by our industry over the last 2 years and promised to keep the
industry in mind when taking decisions on curfews and expressed that he
would be happiest when businesses like ours can get back to complete
normal operations," he explained.
The representatives of NRAI and
Craft Brewers Association of India met with the Chief Minister on
Friday where they expressed the concerns of the Hospitality Industry
with regards to the weekend curfew, taxations, licensing and
ease-of-doing business.
The government ended the weekend curfew
on Friday despite the growing number of Covid in the state especially in
Bengaluru after the high-level meeting.
